I ran to the window ledge and said to Tom-Cat, "We've got to run." "No cat leaves here without my permission," he snarled. I could see his eyes gleaming in the darkness and not for the first time I was struck by how deeply stupid he was...
When we remember Wilson's public spats, it is easy to imagine he was inspired by the stupid eyes of certain other writers. Although his exchanges with Bevis Hillier chronologically could not be the exact inspiration, that one gives us a sense of how some spats spark.
Anita Singh recalls in her article of April 5, 2012:
In 2002, he [Wilson] reviewed Bevis Hillier’s biography of John Betjeman and called it “a hopeless mishmash”. Four years later, Wilson wrote his own Betjeman biography and included a passionate love letter supposedly written by the poet’s mistress. It turned out to be a hoax concocted by Hillier, and the first letter of each sentence spelled out “AN Wilson is a s---”.
The cat on the cover of Stray looks able to take care of himself:
In 2002, he [Wilson] reviewed Bevis Hillier’s biography of John Betjeman and called it “a hopeless mishmash”. Four years later, Wilson wrote his own Betjeman biography and included a passionate love letter supposedly written by the poet’s mistress. It turned out to be a hoax concocted by Hillier, and the first letter of each sentence spelled out “AN Wilson is a s---”.
The cat on the cover of Stray looks able to take care of himself:
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